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The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.

A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.

Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.] They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke.

The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

In banc, In banco (the ablative of bancus), In bank, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at nisi prius).

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak.

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.

The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.

by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison.

To adjudge; to assign by authority. The second was to Triamond behight. Spenser.

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to b…

, opposition between science and religion. An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume.

the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible.…

Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

ch may be ordered at a restaurant, etc. -- Bill of health, a certificate from the proper authorities as to the state of health of a ship's company at the time of her leaving port. -- Bill of indictment, a written accusation lawfully presented to a grand jury. If the jury consider the evidence sufficient to support th…

Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton.

A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III. Bouvier. Wharton.

ernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton.